In-Sight Publishing Advice to Gifted and Talented Youth 1 - IQ 199: 1-in-Several-Billion Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 15, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Gifted and talented youth decades ago did not have as much support as they do now. Gifted and talented have tremendous amounts of support now, but can fall through the cracks. They are …
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In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 9 - Major Figures Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 14, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Our discussion went from scientific process in general to discussions about spiritism and the afterlife in addition to specifics about ghosts, the devil, angels, and so on, and then it went into historical …
In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 7 - Faith and Science Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 12, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: That sounds like an anthropomorphism and a teleological view tied together that then becomes the lens through which the taxonomical classifications are had or made and the process itself is done. Rick …
In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 6 - Proto-Science Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 11, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Some subtleties can be added to this. For instance, a generalized spirit world or any manner of afterlife seem different than any of ghosts, devil or Satan, spirits inhabiting animals, and so on. …
In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 5 - Cognitive Economics Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 10, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Rick, you have mentioned some parts, in other discussions, about low-cost, beneficial, non-empirical belief systems. For instance, about things that are non-provable, some might deem them non-meaningful by that definition, or matters …
In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 4 - Motor Ability Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 9, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: There’s an aspect to do with motor ability. The degree to which an organism travels. How regular and localized is its general itinerary in addition its kin? And human beings having a …
In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 3 - Size Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 8, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What are some of your ideas about cognitive thrift with respect to size? Rick Rosner: One, it requires a lot of resources to run a thinking organism. It costs a lot in terms of energy. Two, …
In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 2 - Error Reduction Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 7, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: That recalls two things for me. On the one hand, the strength of the cognitive system. On the other hand, its weaknesses too. What would cognitive economic state about the strengths and weaknesses of an evolved …
In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 1 - The Start Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 6, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: When we talk about aspects of efficiency in thought as an implication of optimal informational arrangements such as mass and gravitational forces to make aggregations of matters as representative of information efficiency, …
In-Sight Publishing Born to do Math 60 – Sum Over Histories Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 5, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: It is also something that you can physics without. You cannot do quantum physics without quantum indeterminacy. That systems exist in states where there is not enough information to …
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